The effectiveness of an integrated phonological awareness approach for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)

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dc.contributor.authorMcNeill, B.C.
dc.contributor.authorGillon, G.T.
dc.contributor.authorDodd, B.
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-27T21:14:24Z
dc.date.available2009-04-27T21:14:24Z
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.description.abstractBackground and Aim: This study investigated the effectiveness of an integrated phonological awareness approach for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). Change in speech, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, word decoding, and spelling skills were examined. Method: A controlled multiple single-subject design was employed. Twelve children aged 4-7 years with CAS participated in two 6-week intervention blocks (2-sessions per week) separated by a 6-week withdrawal block. Results: Nine children with CAS made significant gains in their production of target speech sounds and these demonstrated transfer of skills to connected speech for at least one speech target. Eight children showed significant gains in at least one target phoneme awareness skill, and these children demonstrated transfer of skills to novel phoneme awareness tasks. As a group the children with CAS demonstrated improvement in phonological awareness, letter knowledge, word decoding, and spelling ability. Conclusions: An integrated phonological awareness programme was an effective method of simultaneously improving speech, phoneme awareness, word decoding, and spelling ability for some children with CAS.en
dc.identifier.citationMcNeill, B.C., Gillon, G.T., Dodd, B. (2009) The effectiveness of an integrated phonological awareness approach for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Child Language Teaching and Therapy, in press.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/2375
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Literacies and Arts in Education.en
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectapraxiaen
dc.subjectdevelopmental speech disorderen
dc.subjectdyspraxiaen
dc.subjectinterventionen
dc.subjectliteracyen
dc.subjectphonological awarenessen
dc.subjectreadingen
dc.subjecttreatment effectivenessen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::320000 Medical and Health Sciences::320700 Neurosciencesen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::330000 Education::330100 Education Studies::330108 Special educationen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences::380200 Linguistics::380204 Laboratory phonetics and speech scienceen
dc.titleThe effectiveness of an integrated phonological awareness approach for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)en
dc.typeJournal Article
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